Tatton Park 2017 Foodies Festival Review: August 2017
16th July 2017 only meant one thing, it was time to grab those VIP press passes and make our way down to Tatton Park for the UK’s largest celebration of food and drink – The Foodies Festival extravaganza for a sensational Sunday funday. Now within its tenth year, the festival offers food & drink, live music and wellbeing in the form of live demonstrations from yoga Cheshire.
The exclusive VIP tickets, provided us with some extra fabulous foodie fun and frolic’s which included access to the private VIP tent, where the host warmly welcome us, provided us with show guide booklets and reserved our food and drink masterclasses.
Another perk of VIP included a complimentary goodie bag and a glass of beautiful bubbles on arrival which was ideal to sip, as we watched each music act play in the privacy of the VIP tent. The same acts also appeared on the main live music stage, a great addition to the event which provided atmospheric beats as the crowds chowed down on some yummy foodies delights all washed down with an array of delicious drinkies.
Bustling with excitement, it was time to start exploring, perfect timing too, as luckily for us the sun had decided to make an experience early on in the day. The event offered something for everyone, brands such as Vita coco, Pimm’s with it fabulous teapot stand, Belvoir Fruit farms with their hot air balloon photo opportunity and the brilliant bus bar to name a few.
Cool Culinary opportunities included being able to access the Cakes and Desserts Theatre, the kids cookery theatre and the chefs theatre where live demonstrations took place which really makes you feel part of the action. The VIP wristband really came in handy offering us prime positions within the theatres. Clearly with wetted appetites, we decided to move onto the drinks theatre, for something to wash all the knowledge down with.
The 12:30 drinks theatre, was the Prosecco DOC with the lovely Neil Phillips, the Wine tipster. This was an eye opening informational, yet interesting experience. Clearly, Neil fully engaged with the audience while educating and brushing up our knowledge of the perfect Proseccos. While doing so, we got to wet our palates tasting four fabulous Prosecco’s all at the comfort of our very own prime positioned VIP table.
Out next tent tasting, began at 13:30 with the lovely Charles Metcalfe, giving his insights and knowledge into the many styles of Champagne. There were five fabulous fizzy drinkies to sample which was extremely useful to identify your fav type of champs without buying the full bottle – perfect!
After all the brilliant bubbles, we needed to refuel, so sought out some much needed foodie delights. Amazing Ashas offered us an array of Indian cuisine, which included the lovely Chicken biryani, Chicken Takatak and the sensational Samosa Chaat, all served up by a super fab friendly team.
Tequila…yes you heard right and the last stop of the day was to see the boys at Cazcabel Tequila shack who gave us a grand finale. Sampling their four tequilas with the favs being the coffee and manuka honey flavoured types. The cocktails created with the tequila were sensational. Finally, there was the traffic light tequila tasting, we did not see red, but the shots pack a powerful punch.
The foodies festival was exciting stuff offering unique experiences and opportunities and whether you decide to go for standard entry tickets or treat yourself to VIP, I am sure that you will have a wonderful time.
Thank you for reading 😊
Melanie xx
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Cakes and desserts theatre?? is that what heaven sounds like?
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Haha totally agree with you:)x
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I went to one of these foodie festivals a few years ago and had so much fun!
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It was fabulous fun…loved everything about it:)x
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I’m off to a Welsh food festival this weekend and I can’t wait 🙂
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Ooo enjoy and have fun. Hope the sun shines for you :)x
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That looks like such an incredible day, we’ll have to make the trip next year.
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Deffo…it was incredible and well worth popping along to:)x
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Ooh love a good foodie festival and this sounds great!
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It was literally an awesome experience:)x
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That sounds like a really cool festival! We have some around here, but nothing quite as cool as this!
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It was a very cool festival Gareth. Well worth a whirl:)x
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I love food festivals like this, it’s always nice to do a bit of sampling x
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Haha yes indeedy :)x
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you can’t go wrong with food and drinks! i went to a food festival abroad last year and boy was it manic haha
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Totally agree hun…Haha…sounds like a blast 🙂 x
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This looks so fun. I want to go to a foodie festival. It would be so much fun and my daughter would love it too!
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It was a fun fab day…loved it. You would both have a great time 🙂 x
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This looks like so much fun! I don’t know where I’d head to first as there appears to be lots of yummy food and drinks everywhere you look! x
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It was awesome…so much fun 🙂 They were yummy 🙂 x
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Ph the Foodies festival looks amazing!! I’ve seen a few of them around and really keen to go to one!! I would have definitely loved the indian cuisine too!!
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It was amazing hun. This one is well worth a visit…and the Indian cuisine is yummy 🙂 x
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Looks like a great day and a wonderful way to discover and sample new cuisine and bubblies! 🙂
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Totally was a great sampling day 🙂 x
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A foodie festival? That is right up my alley! It looks like you had an awesome time.
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Me too…we did indeedy 🙂 x
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What a fantastic event!!! I am a bit of a foodie so this would be something I would love to go to! It isn’t to far to get to either, so I will be looking out for it next year! x
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Ooo you would love it hun. Well worth going next year…enjoy :)x
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This festival is just pitch-perfect for me. I’d love to attend it. Is it every year in August?
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That is great to hear. I think it is, but I would just check their website nearer to the time to check the dates lovely 🙂 x
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Sounds like a great event, I’d have been all over the champagne talk
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It was smashing….aw the fizz tastings were lush 🙂 x
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It looks like such a great event, I saw there was a foodies festival near where i live but i couldn’t make it. Hopefully it’ll be on again next Summer! xo
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They are deffo worth a visit, so much to do in one place and the quality of the food and drink is outstanding 🙂 x
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